Fitting It All In - Making Social Media Part of Your Regular Day

Twitter and Facebook and blogs, Oh My! How do you handle the fire hose of information coming in, and still find time to send information out and interact with your friends/fans/followers? The beauty and benefit of social media and social networking is that they give us instant access to large amounts of information and the ability to interact; but how do you handle processing the information and,... [read more]

Twitter and Facebook and blogs, Oh My! How do you handle the fire hose of information coming in, and still find time to send information out and interact with your friends/fans/followers? The beauty and benefit of social media and social networking is that they give us instant access to large amounts of information and the ability to interact; but how do you handle processing the information and, more importantly, engaging in the conversations? How do you avoid missing important incoming communication, while maintaining a steady (or, at least, satisfying) flow of outgoing messaging? Come explore tips, tricks and tools that can help you sort through all the incoming, not miss what is important and regularly interact with your online communities.

As usual, we’ll meet at the Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street, on Tuesday, August 7, gathering at 6:00 PM. Lite fare will be served. Can’t make it to downtown Philly? Watch the live Internet stream at http://phillynetsquared.org/live, and share your comments and questions via Twitter with the hashtag #phlnet2.

This session will focus on practical tactics and strategies. In addition to Gloria’s own expertise, the ideas, experience, comments, questions and difficulties of all who attend will be an integral part of the content of the evening. (It is about social media, after all!) So, come share your own successes and challenges in trying to integrate the social web into your busy life. Who should attend?

• Nonprofit staff and activists who need to use social web media and social networking more effectively to help their causes.
• Techies who want to learn more about the tools and tactics that can help their customers.
• Busy folks who know that social media and social networking are important, but find it challenging to fit it all in.

RSVP’s are appreciated for planning purposes, but not required. We’d love to have you join us.

With over 25 years of successful business operations, communications and entrepreneurial experience, Gloria Bell is currently the Operations Manager and Lead Social Media Strategist for O3 World, LLC, Co-Chair of the SocialMediaPlus conference and an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University. Between her corporate career and joining O3 World, Gloria founded Red Stapler Consulting where she worked with businesses and technology startups providing them with business process and operations consulting and social media strategy and implementation. Gloria is well known as a passionate social media practitioner, entrepreneur and volunteer in the Philadelphia region. She is President of Social Media Club Philadelphia, co-organizer of PodCamp Philly, PodCamp East, Twestival Philadelphia, MarketingCamp Philly, the Philadelphia Women In Tech Summit and the #140Conference Philly Meetup. Demonstrating her commitment to the Philadelphia entrepreneurial community, Gloria serves on the Philly StartUp Leaders Leadership Team as the Events Director. She also serves on the board of the charitable organization, ShareUrMeal, as an advisor to TechGirlz and as a mentor for Lean Startup Machine Philly and Startup Weekend Philly. Truly believing in the business benefits of both on- and off-line communities, Gloria regularly speaks on networking and the use of social media in business.